Ludwig Camerarius
Ludwig Camerarius (* January 22, 1573 in Nuremberg, † October 4, 1651 probably in Heidelberg ) was a Palatine- Swedish statesman, lawyer, minister and head of the government in exile of Frederick V. in The Hague.
Life
Camerarius was the doctor's son Joachim Camerarius the Younger and the grandson of the same humanist and philologist Joachim Camerarius the Elder significant. He studied since 1588 in Altdorf near Nuremberg, since February 2, 1592 Helmstedt, from the summer of 1592 in Leipzig and since 1597 in Basel. In Basel, he attained the degree of doctor of laws. On April 17, 1599 he married Anna Maria Modesta Pastoir ( born July 15, 1580 Heidelberg; † around 1642) with whom he had seven children. After his graduation he practiced since 1597 at the Imperial Chamber Court in Speyer.
He joined in 1598 in the service of the Elector Palatine Frederick V and was privy councilor in 1610 and 1611 Privy Council. Under the direction of the governor of Upper Palatinate and Chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate Christian I of Anhalt -Bernburg he effectively assumed management of the Palatine imperial politics.
Camerarius did efforts to secure his employer, the Crown of the Kingdom of Bohemia. It is assumed that to him the plan goes back to the Bavarian Duke Maximilian I as opposition candidate to Ferdinand II in the imperial election of the year 1619 to bring into play.
After the election of Frederick King of Bohemia Camerarius accompanied him to Prague and became a privy councilor in 1620 and Vice-Chancellor of Silesia. After the defeat of Frederick in November 1620 Camerarius fled with the hapless king and tried through his journalistic work and pamphlets to refute the Palatinate blame for the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Especially since his appointment to chief of the Palatine government in exile in The Hague, he was convinced that the important thing going for Protestantism to lead a possible all over Europe detected struggle against the Habsburgs and the Catholic League.
1627, he was succeeded by Johann Joachim Rusdorf as head of the government in exile. Already in 1626 he had entered Swedish service in the Netherlands, but committed to continue for the Palatinate thing. In Swedish service he remained until 1640th
Until 1651, he was resident in Groningen and returned shortly before his death in 1651 to Heidelberg back.
It is believed that through him the Falk book, which had once been owned by his father, came to the Electors of the Palatinate, and thus in the Bibliotheca Palatina.
Collectio Camerariana
The now housed in the Bavarian State Library in Munich Collectio Camerariana contains its own correspondence from 1621 also many letters from Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Jacob Micyllus, Erasmus of Rotterdam and the poet Georg Fabricius. Most of the letters are addressed to his grandfather Joachim Camerarius. Thus, this represents one of the main sources for the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation
Works
- Friderici dei gratia Bohemiae regis, comitis palatini rhenium, electoris & c. declaratio publica, Cur Regni Bohemiae annexarumque Provinciarum regimes in se susceperit, 1619, digitized at the University of Augsburg
- Prodromus, or vanguard, necessarily rescue distinguished Protestant High and lowly Standts, betrangten and verleumbden people unschuldt, by a thorough discovery of the Popish harmful intention unnd project: This is: Warhaffter unnd glaubwirdiger impression etzlicher intercipirten very far außsehenden dangerous writing and Schrifften which Auss the original research, with assiduity abcopirt, and partly Auss those languages , it is written in it, be verteutschet trewlich with prospective narrowed Kurtzer information unnd instructions 1622
- Cancellaria Hispanica: Adjecta Acta publica sunt, hoc est: Scripta et Epistolae authenticae, e quibus partim infelicis belli in Germania partim Proscriptionis in Electorem palatine scopus praecipuus apparet ... 1622
- Report and answer uff the vornembste Capita, Päß and material points of bayer -Anhalt secret Cantzley: sampt several Beylagen, 1623
- Mystery of iniquity, immersive secreta secretorum turco - papistica secreta: Contra Libellum famosum, sub titulo Secreta calvino - turcica, auctore quodam personato Theonesto Cogmandolo Politiae Christianae professore, aliquoties editum. XCV considerationibus revelata, et eius totidem malitiosis et ex mera calumnia conflatis considerationibus ex parallelo opposita ... Justinopoli, 1625